单词 | eye-minded |
释义 | > as lemmaseye-minded eye-minded adj. originally and chiefly Psychology tending to a frequent use of visual imagery; having a mental constitution chiefly or exclusively visual, so that thoughts and memories take the form of visual images; thinking in terms of the printed or written word rather than of the spoken word; cf. ear-minded adj. ΚΠ 1888 J. Jastrow in Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 603 An eye-minded person should read, should reduce everything to visual terms. 1897 Psychol. Rev. (Monogr. Suppl.) 2 i. 18 Some persons are ear-minded—they think most readily in auditory (‘phonographic’) images; others are eye-minded, thinking in visual (‘photographic’) images. 1901 E. B. Titchener Exper. Psychol. I. i. 196 The purely eye-minded man would recognise persons, things and places by their look, and would recall events as a panorama of views. 1964 Films in Rev. Mar. 129/2 Minnelli is eye-minded and his sense of artistic design developed early. 2006 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 25 Aug. 28 Modern societies have become ever more ‘eye-minded’ and fearful or contemptuous of touch. < as lemmas |
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